I've been running Puppy (squeeze-5.X.3.2.7-SCSI.iso) on my Acer Aspire One A110L for a few months now. Initially everything was smooth and I got rid of the problems I had with Linpus. However, for several weeks now Firefox hangs almost constantly. Sometime for several minutes and quite often even causing the whole system to freeze completely. I just checked and the current version of the installed Firefox is 17.0.1. Any suggestions what to do? Change browser or? If so, any suggestions what would fit Puppy?

I use to erase periodically the directory mozilla softwares use to save preferences which can get very big and malfunctioning. Erasing it you'll start firefox 17.0.1 as a fresh install. Save your bookmarks. Then:

Code:

mv /root/.mozilla /root/.mozilla.old

Start now Firefox as a fresh install. If you want to go back:

Code:

rm -r /root/.mozilla
mv /root/.mozilla.old /root/.mozilla

I think it's clear. At the end I suggest to not update your functioning browser before testing it with your current puppy.

Edit: Update! For some reason it seems like it is now only the original icon on the desktop that's not working, I finally got Firefox started from the directory itself! 18.0.2 is up and running and seems to be stable! At least an enormous improval from 17.0.1. Thanks for all support!

Thanks again for the support!

Actually Firefox seemed to be working fine again, but before I really had time to evaluate that, I had a system crash. After that all I got when starting the Acer was a black screen. Anyway, I downloaded the latest bios drivers from Acer's homepage and now Puppy's up and running again.

But as for Firefox.. Now it won't even start when I press the icon! It seems like it's loading for a while, and then nothing..

I've tried deleting the existing .mozilla folder and everything in it, creating a new .mozilla folder and downloading the latest Firefox for Linux and extracting that file to ~/.mozilla/firefox/. Still nothing happens!

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